Because in many ways people do not want to get involved or give face (ain't this one of your problems?! NO?!), but yeah they can still help. They can still help by going anonymous and provide a link.
On google for example, search for string: link:
fedoraproject.orgReports 2580 links to
fedoraproject.org. The higher the number of links the higher will be the visibility on google. It's one of the factors for page ranking. Like someone said before, only about 10% of the people who use Fedora are directly involved on the project.... this is for the other 90% which have chosen not to contribute directly. Don't see any harm in this. If they link us on their blog, they can for sure help us at least with google ranking... Don't see any anti-Fedora on it.
The more frequent the pages are updated, the more relevance google gives to them in ranking therms (ranking is not only made of keyword density), which actually makes it a very potent tool to explore at the cost of a link.
And besides why not asking this to people, if we have lots of stuff that can be wiselly used from Marketing Collateral ?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/MarketingCollateral
Wouldn't it be nice also to highlight it and ask people to use it?
Sorry but I don't see any harm in promoting amongst Fedora enthusiasts to link to the project and why. It does sound reasonable to me. And if we can tell them a couple of useful information on how it works... I see no harm or any obscure reasons for not doing it.
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> Going after the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) concepts, there are
> two things that are awesome, one of them is that the number of links
> of the web contributes to this concept (at least on google). The
> higher the number the links you have on the internet to your website,
> it will improve page ranking.